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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by pkulak on Friday May 21, 2010 @07:23PM (#1369301)
I love how it apparently stands for "What a terrible failure".
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by lanstein on Friday May 21, 2010 @07:32PM (#1369315)
Talk about reverse engineering an acronym :)
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by timmorgan on Friday May 21, 2010 @10:32PM (#1369623)
Wikipedia calls it a Backronym: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by sp332 on Saturday May 22, 2010 @10:08AM (#1370320)
"Backronym"? That's obviously a postmanteau :-)
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by gometro33 on Saturday May 22, 2010 @10:48AM (#1370381)
Portmanteau
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by sp332 on Saturday May 22, 2010 @03:57PM (#1370931)
I know, see the ":-)" ?
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by orangecat on Saturday May 22, 2010 @02:47AM (#1369924)
It's also worth noting that the Wave API supports direct lolcat insertion: http://code.google.com/p/google-wave-resources/issues/detail...
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by benatkin on Saturday May 22, 2010 @08:01AM (#1370195)
Reminds me of the logcat command.

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html

As the presenter at my first android user group meeting said, it sounds an awful lot like "lolcat".

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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by jasonchen on Saturday May 22, 2010 @11:02AM (#1370403)
You should try issuing "adb lolcat" sometime...
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by anigbrowl on Saturday May 22, 2010 @03:33PM (#1370885)
Woah! Impressive.
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by malkia on Friday May 21, 2010 @09:42PM (#1369555)
And where is the BBQ extension to that function?
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by malkia on Friday May 21, 2010 @09:42PM (#1369552)
When called in reverse it indicates a SUCCESS!

FTW!

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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by xtho on Friday May 21, 2010 @11:37PM (#1369719)
It's not that simple. Some people say that in the reverse acronym the W was originally expanded to World.

  Question: W to F?
  Answer: F the W(orld)!
  Chorus: W the F! ... (repeat)
  Hero: For the win!
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by madmaze on Friday May 21, 2010 @07:29PM (#1369313)
I came across this last night, PURE AWESOME!
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Re:New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() by martythemaniak on Friday May 21, 2010 @11:44PM (#1369725)
It would be practical to use as well. Neat.
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